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Fentress County - Solid Waste: OSHA inspections and violations

Jamestown, Tennessee · Materials Recovery Facilities · NAICS 562920

6inspections
14citation items
$0current penalties
Mar 6, 2024last inspection

Fentress County - Solid Waste has 6 OSHA inspections on record in Tennessee, the first in 1997.

OSHA's last visit started on Mar 6, 2024 after a fatality or catastrophe, in Jamestown.

Across those inspections OSHA issued 14 citation items: 11 serious and 3 other-than-serious.

OSHA did not attach a penalty to any of these citations.

Most often, OSHA cited 1910.305, electrical wiring methods (5 items).

For context, across all staffing, cleaning and waste services employers the median penalty per cited inspection since 2015 is $2,201. Fentress County - Solid Waste averages $0 over 1 cited inspection in that time.

1 inspection on this page followed a fatal incident.

Fentress County - Solid Waste: OSHA citation items per year, 1997 to 2024
Citation items per year, by inspection date.

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Inspection history

Inspection 347333197 OPENED MAR 6, 2024Closed

Fatality or catastrophe · Partial · Safety · Local government · 36 employees at the site · Closed Mar 27, 2024

2075 Pickett Park Drive, Jamestown, TN 38556 · Solid Waste Collection · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Incident on Dec 14, 2023 (fatal): Employee is killed when hits head on pole

At 2:46 p.m. on December 14, 2023, an employee had disposed of cardboard boxes in a trash bin. When returning back to his workstation, the employee slipped on a dropped piece of cardboard and went headfirst into a wooden support pole. The employee appeared to be intoxicated. The employee was killed due to blunt force trauma to the forehead.

No citations from this inspection.

Inspection 342581139 OPENED AUG 17, 2017Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · Local government · 4 employees at the site · Closed Oct 20, 2017

515 Fairgrounds Road, Jamestown, TN 38556 · Solid Waste Collection · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.303(b)(2) · Electrical equipment, general requirements
 Serious$0$0Sep 18, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(1)(iv) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$0$0Sep 18, 2017Final
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(2)(ii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$0$0Sep 18, 2017Final

Inspection 311146179 OPENED JUN 27, 2007Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · Local government · 2 employees at the site · Closed Aug 15, 2007

3275 South York Highway, Jamestown, TN 38556 · Materials Recovery Facilities · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.303(f) · Electrical equipment, general requirements
 Serious$0$0Jul 26, 2007Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.305(a)(4)(v) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$0$0Jul 26, 2007Closed

Inspection 311146187 OPENED JUN 27, 2007Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · Local government · 2 employees at the site · Closed Aug 15, 2007

515 Fairgrounds Road, Jamestown, TN 38556 · Materials Recovery Facilities · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.304(f)(4) · Grounding and circuit protection
 Serious$0$0Jul 26, 2007Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.304(f)(5)(v) · Grounding and circuit protection
 Serious$0$0Jul 26, 2007Closed
Citation 1, item 3
29 CFR 1910.305(a)(4)(v) · Electrical wiring methods
 Serious$0$0Jul 26, 2007Closed

Inspection 120586839 OPENED JUL 16, 1997Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · Local government · 3 employees at the site · Closed Sep 22, 1997

127 South, Jamestown, TN 38556 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.23(d)(1)(iii) · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes
 Serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed
Citation 1, item 2
29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1) · Lockout/tagout
 Serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed
Citation 2, item 1
29 CFR 1910.305(g)(1)(iii) · Electrical wiring methods
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed

Inspection 120586847 OPENED JUL 16, 1997Closed

Planned · Complete · Safety · Local government · 4 employees at the site · Closed Oct 29, 1997

199 Ball Park Road, Jamestown, TN 38556 · OSHA's record · Phone and website on Google Maps

Citation and ruleTypeProposedCurrentIssuedStatus
Citation 1, item 1
29 CFR 1910.212(a)(3)(ii) · Machine guarding
 Serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed
Citation 2, item 1 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed
Citation 2, item 2
29 CFR 1910.157(c)(1) · Portable fire extinguishers
 Other-than-serious$0$0Aug 15, 1997Closed

The rules behind these citations

Current text from the Code of Federal Regulations. Some citations were issued under older wording.

29 CFR 1910.141 · Sanitation

29 CFR 1910.141(d)(2)(ii)

(ii) Each lavatory shall be provided with hot and cold running water, or tepid running water.

29 CFR 1910.147 · Lockout/tagout

29 CFR 1910.147(c)(1)

(c) General—(1) Energy control program. The employer shall establish a program consisting of energy control procedures, employee training and periodic inspections to ensure that before any employee performs any servicing or maintenance on a machine or equipment where the unexpected energizing, start up or release of stored energy could occur and cause injury, the machine or equipment shall be isolated from the energy source, and rendered inoperative.

29 CFR 1910.157 · Portable fire extinguishers

29 CFR 1910.157(c)(1)

(c) General requirements. (1) The employer shall provide portable fire extinguishers and shall mount, locate and identify them so that they are readily accessible to employees without subjecting the employees to possible injury.

29 CFR 1910.212 · Machine guarding

29 CFR 1910.23 · Guarding floor and wall openings and holes

29 CFR 1910.303 · Electrical equipment, general requirements

29 CFR 1910.304 · Grounding and circuit protection

29 CFR 1910.305 · Electrical wiring methods

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